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Is your idea a story?

Is your idea a story?

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Is your idea a story?

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- All right, so hopefully you have a few ideas that you're pretty excited about. And now what you have to ask yourself is, it's a cool idea, but is it a story? And I know that might seem a bit odd and that's because, especially in the beginning part of the screenwriting process. We all have a tendency to refer to story and idea interchangeably. But the truth is, there is actually a distinction between the two and it's important. A idea is sort of your starting point. It's generally going to be pretty general. Something like, a down on his luck super hero. Right? A story about a down on his luck super hero. So, the question of course is, all right, so what happens to this down on his luck super hero? And the answer to that question, that's when it goes from being a idea to a story. So another way of saying is that, of that, is that stories are going to involve change. They're going to involve movement. Someone, some…

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